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Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs from the old-time Christmas, before Santa Claus came to...

First found in Georgia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, in the Bahamas in the 1920's and 1950's, and popularized during the folk revival of the 1960's, variations of the song "Delia's...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes,...

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes,...

Jolly Sailors Bold: Ballads and Songs of the American Sailor is a major anthology of folk songs and parlor songs excavated from nine-teenth-century sailors' shipboard journals. The...

Proceedings of the EFDSS Folk Song Conference 2013Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Loomis House PressPublication Date: Jun 15, 2015Number of Pages: 196 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Which came first, the ballad or the romance? Many famous tales exist in both early folk ballads and in written medieval romances. Scholars for more than a century have debated the nature of the...

Best known as author of the song "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," Ewan McColl played a vital role in the "folk song revival" in Britain. 200 of his songs are included in this unique collection,...

This long-awaited sequel to Gale Huntington's classic collection, Songs the Whalemen Sang, assembles more than 200 songs from whalemen's journals, log books, and popular music of the whaling era:...

The English ballad "The Gest of Robyn Hood" is the single most important source for the Robin Hood legend. This study uses the latest resources and techniques to reconstruct the text and interpret...

The New Book of Pirate SongsAuthor: Stuart M. FrankPublisher: Loomis House PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2012Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1935243926ISBN-13:...

Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and...

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads leaves off. Bronson has collected all available tunes for each of Child's ballads,...

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads leaves off. Bronson has collected all available tunes for each of Child's ballads,...

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads leaves off. Bronson has collected all available tunes for each of Child's ballads,...

The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads begins where Francis Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads leaves off. Bronson has collected all available tunes for each of Child's ballads,...

"The Wild West Show," best known in its modern form as a bawdy rugby song, seems at first glance little more than a loose collection of scatological verses linked together by an almost unrelated...

Step back in time, to the days of roadside inns, mineral water cures, and leisurely summer vacations in the Allegheny foothills. As a family-owned resort, for nearly a century the White Sulphur...